Christine Baranski
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then because...
That was my first job.
And because my senior class played a Juilliard, I played the lead in To Pity She's a Whore with an actor named Franklin Seals.
So right out of school, I had done already a season at Stratford, and then I'd had several credits to my name.
And so Michael Kahn was hugely important in my early acting career.
No, no, actually, no, I wasn't that girl.
No, I lived in that era, but drugs had no appeal to me.
I was probably the hardest working student.
I was...
At Juilliard, before it opened, I would go to Juilliard and warm up my voice and be doing exercises and all before classes started.
And I was the last one to leave.
I was always working.
They were happy years for me.
I'm surprised I wasn't hit by a car because I had my head in the clouds going to school and then working.
We were always working on some role or another.
We were always in a production.
I was...
So happy as a student.
It was very competitive.
It was hard.